re: "it was never the size of the services that mattered: it was the connections and the relationships between them" re relationships I would say these are bet

re: "it was never the size of the services that mattered: it was the connections and the relationships between them" re relationships I would say these are better thought of through the lens of separation of concerns. imo, connections, a la protocols like http will fade into the background and be a focus of ops. A piece of code knows to write/read data to/from _________, for which it has been authorized access by address/hashname/entity.